History Main / IncestSubtext

* Ben and Gwen from ''{{Ben 10}}'' have infamous amounts of subtext applied to them in {{canon}}, despite their being cousins.

* The Prentiss family in [[TheManchurianCandidate ''The Manchurian Candidate'']]. (There was a novel, too, in which the incest is quite explicitly mentioned, but this troper does not recommend the novel.) The original film version showed a very possessive and not at all chaste kiss between Eleanor and her son Raymond, and the 2004 remake featured heavy subtext in every scene that showed them together, including some very ambiguous touching and kissing moments.
** (It helps that Meryl Streep was on *fire* as Eleanor Shaw. It's doubtful that anyone, even a close blood relative, would be immune to that kind of sex appeal.)

* ''ASongOfIceAndFire'' - Jon/Dany can be this, if a certain theory about Jon's parents is right.
** ... It should be noted that these characters [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight have not met each other yet.]]

** One scene Willow is checking out a girl, before it's revealed to be Dawn.

** By the present events of ''Path Of Radiance'', disaster has left the continent with no more than ten herons. Five of the survivors are left are related to each other. They will either die out or...

* Rito and Mikan in ''ToLoveRu'', particularly on Mikan's part, getting jealous and lonely when Rito pays attention to other girls. Then there is the time Rito said that he thought of Mikan as "a speical existance beyond even a sibling" and you'll be forgiven for thinking that the subtext is pretty much text now.
* Yuka from {{Elfen Lied}} wants to get in her [[KissingCousins cousin's]] pants so bad it's just creepy.

* This is played for laughs quite a bit on ArrestedDevelopment.

* Creepily invoked in ShinMegamiTenseiII when you find out that [[spoiler: Hiroko, the heroine]] is actually your protagonist's mother. Given the two of you are pretty close already, work together, are the same age, never stray from each other (she follows you on all game paths), and she basically around the same age you are, those who don't get squicked out by the fact the whole thing [[spoiler: is an expy of you being Jesus and her a Virgin Mary stand in]] will probably start shipping them together.

* Many productions [[{{PlayedForDrama}} emphasize the highly-charged, ultra-possessive relationship]] between{{Hamlet}} and Gertrude. Partially Justified in that Hamlet [[{{WellDoneSonGuy}} is trying to live up to his father's image]]

* Liquid Snake. Not so much in ''MetalGearSolid'', although he's such an enormous LargeHam that most of his lines sound flirty, but in ''MetalGearSolid 4'' there's {{Squick}}y scenes where he sniffs Snake's hair, blows kisses at him, and grapples him from behind [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything while Snake is helpless and simply begging him to stop]].

* ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena,'' between the Kaoru siblings. YourMileageMayVary on whether it still qualifies as ''sub''text. [[spoiler: Touga ''thinks'' he and Nanami have this and is very much mistaken. The less said about Akio and Anthy, the better, for sanity's sake.]]

* [[{{VisualNovel:UminekoNoNakuKoroNi}} Ep. 5]] gives us this between Battler and Rosa: "Even though she was my aunt, she gave me a wink that would have made a man's heart jump."

* ''Phineas and Ferb'' featured a song called "Gitchi-Gitchi-Goo". It wa sang by siblings (Phineas and Candace) with hearts at background, glitter dust etc. Part of its lyrics are "Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wow" - For those who don't know what I'm getting at: "Bow-chicka-wow-wow" is commonly known as the verbalization of typical 70s porn music. By siblings, hmmmm...

* Yui & Ui from KOn are [[{{IfYouKnowWhatIMean}} VERY]] close...Both are extremely affectionate towards the other, Ui has ended up crying at the realization Yui will be/is gone on vacation. Ui's character song is literally titled [[{{WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic}} "Lovely Sister LOVE"]] while Yui wrote what amounts to a love song to Ui...

* There is some of this with Sally and Dr. Finklestein in ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation possibly]]. In the DVDCommentary, TimBurton refers to Sally as a daughter -- yet there's lines in-film like "You're mine, you know!" and "You can make ''other'' creations!" that really doesn't sound like a rebellious-daughter/overprotective-dad relationship, but like [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean something else entirely]]. Consider that the creation Dr. Finklestein makes to replace Sally looks awfully like a wife -- [[ScrewYourself that looks exactly like him]] -- and that an alternate ending had [[BigBad Oogie Boogie]] be [[TheManBehindTheCurtain Dr. Finklestein]], jealous that Sally chose Jack over him. In [[http://nightmarebeforechristmas.net/nightmare/script/2 an earlier script]], the father/daughter relationship was a lot more obvious with lines like "I'm grown up now. I'll have to leave sometime" . . . yet there are bits like ''The scientist smiles, feeling Sally under his sway again'' that sounds [[ParentalIncest rather creepy]].

* Rampant in ''[[{{Theater/Ptitletbpi557r}} Electra]]''. Electra's relationship to her dead father is slightly [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest unhealthy]] and has some incestuous undertones. Her relationship to her brother is ''all'' [[{{Subtext}} undertones]].

** There's also a potential Squick moment in the same scene: an aside in a conversation between Boromir and Denethor (the two men's father) that [[YourMileageMayVary can be read]] as Daddy Dearest saying Faramir's a bit of a [[FetishFuel slut]], to which Boromir responds with a clear wince. Sean Bean facial tic or BroYay?

** This troper thinks it's just a Sean Bean facial tic, but if you pretend it was an actor who didn't look so constipated - this troper has now had that scene RuinedForever.